Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course I am unable to say, which "one" of a dozen or more the Senator "saw," but everyone of them could no doubt hit the ground with his hat and therefore be unable to qualify. And along with the Senator, they all wore their hats large in those days...
...crowd approached again, he raced his motor sharply. In doing so he splashed dirty water over newsgatherers, photographers, admiring women. Said the Washington Daily News, in an editorial captioned "Lindbergh Splashes Mud on Himself": 'We'd like to tell the boy where he gets off but we doubt if it would serve any good purpose. . . . We would like ... to prepare him for the inevitable day when his popularity will have turned to unpopularity. . . . People with warts on their faces learn to bear their crosses bravely. People who become popular heroes should do the same...
...interpret him, he has built a setting of very obvious contrast. Two young people engaged to be married are set off against a young married couple. And as the faith of the youngsters in the everlasting bliss and contentment of the marital state resolves itself into a gaping doubt, Mr. Raphaelson lightly expounds his thesis...
...some, the advent of Miss Dorothy Gish to the legitimate stage is no doubt a great event. We would not go quite so far as to say that. But she does give what is on the whole a good performance. The blot on her scutcheon is that in spite of her acting she gives the impression of being about eight years older than the score the play calls...
...office by a successive series of men fresh from their own undergraduate life insures youthful tone to a section of University Hall all too likely under ordinary circumstances to become a formidable monster in the eyes of some students. The transitory aspect of the appointment also enables graduates in doubt between academic or nonacademic careers to pause on the threshold a moment before plunging one way or the other...